The Art of Love
Gibson
Gebundenes Buch

The Art of Love

Bimillennial Essays on Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris

Herausgeber: Gibson, Roy; Sharrock, Alison; Green, Steven
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The Art of Love celebrates the bi-millennium of Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, traditionally assumed to have been brought to completion around AD 2. Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love), which purport to teach young Roman men and women how to be good lovers, were partly responsible for the poet's exile from Rome under the emperor Augustus. None the less they exerted greatinfluence over ancient and later love poetry. This is the first collection in English devoted to the poems, and brings together many of the leading figures in...